Improving Limits on Planck-Scale Lorentz Symmetry Test Theories

2013 ◽  
pp. 269-274
Author(s):  
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
Keyword(s):  
Planck Scale ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry ◽  
Symmetry Test

Lorentz-Symmetry Test at Planck-Scale Suppression With a Spin-Polarized 133Cs Cold Atom Clock

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 945-949
Author(s):  
H. Pihan-Le Bars ◽  
C. Guerlin ◽  
R.-D. Lasseri ◽  
J.-P. Ebran ◽  
Q. G. Bailey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planck Scale ◽  
Cold Atom ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry ◽  
Symmetry Test ◽  
Spin Polarized

scholarly journals Lorentz-symmetry test at Planck-scale suppression with nucleons in a spin-polarized Cs133 cold atom clock

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Pihan-Le Bars ◽  
C. Guerlin ◽  
R.-D. Lasseri ◽  
J.-P. Ebran ◽  
Q. G. Bailey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planck Scale ◽  
Cold Atom ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry ◽  
Symmetry Test ◽  
Spin Polarized

scholarly journals PROPOSAL OF A SECOND GENERATION OF QUANTUM-GRAVITY-MOTIVATED LORENTZ-SYMMETRY TESTS: SENSITIVITY TO EFFECTS SUPPRESSED QUADRATICALLY BY THE PLANCK SCALE

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (09) ◽  
pp. 1633-1639 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIOVANNI AMELINO-CAMELIA
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Loop Quantum Gravity ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry ◽  
Planck Length ◽  
Satisfactory Description ◽  
Symmetry Tests ◽  
Quantum Spacetime

Over the last few years the study of possible Planck-scale departures from classical Lorentz symmetry has been one of the most active areas of quantum-gravity research. We now have a satisfactory description of the fate of Lorentz symmetry in the most popular noncommutative spacetimes and several studies have been devoted to the fate of Lorentz symmetry in loop quantum gravity. Remarkably there are planned experiments with enough sensitivity to reveal these quantum-spacetime effects, if their magnitude is only linearly suppressed by the Planck length. Unfortunately, in some quantum-gravity scenarios even the strongest quantum-spacetime effects are suppressed by at least two powers of the Planck length, and many authors have argued that it would be impossible to test these quadratically-suppressed effects. I here observe that advanced cosmic-ray observatories and neutrino observatories can provide the first elements of an experimental programme testing the possibility of departures from Lorentz symmetry that are quadratically Planck-length suppressed.

scholarly journals Collision Space-Time.  Unified Quantum Gravity. Gravity is Lorentz Symmetry Break Down at the Planck Scale

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Espen Haug
Keyword(s):  
Wave Equation ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Gravity Theory ◽  
Relativistic Wave Equation ◽  
Relativistic Energy ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Heisenberg Uncertainty

We have recently presented a unified quantum gravity theory [1]. Here we extend on that work and present an even simpler version of that theory. For about hundred years, modern physics has not been able to build a bridge between quantum mechanics and gravity. However, a solution may be found here; we present our quantum gravity theory, which is rooted in indivisible particles where matter and gravity are related to collisions and can be described by collision space-time. In this paper, we also show that we can formulate a quantum wave equation rooted in collision space-time, which is equivalent to mass and energy.The beauty of our theory is that most of the main equations that currently exist in physics are not changed (in terms of predictions), except at the Planck scale. The Planck scale is directly linked to gravity and gravity is, surprisingly, actually a Lorentz symmetry as well as a form of Heisenberg uncertainty break down at the Planck scale. Our theory gives a dramatic simplification of many physics formulas without altering the output predictions. The relativistic wave equation, the relativistic energy momentum relation, and Minkowski space can all be represented by simpler equations when we understand mass at a deeper level. This not attained at a cost, but rather a reflection of the benefit in having gravity and electromagnetism unified under the same theory.

scholarly journals KINEMATICAL SOLUTION OF THE UHE-COSMIC-RAY PUZZLE WITHOUT A PREFERRED CLASS OF INERTIAL OBSERVERS

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (07) ◽  
pp. 1211-1226 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIOVANNI AMELINO-CAMELIA
Keyword(s):  
Special Relativity ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry ◽  
Relativity Theory ◽  
Lorentz Transformations ◽  
Doubly Special Relativity ◽  
Energy Scenario ◽  
Special Relativity Theory

Among the possible explanations for the puzzling observations of cosmic rays above the GZK cutoff there is growing interest in the ones that represent kinematical solutions, based either on general formulations of particle physics with small violations of Lorentz symmetry or on a quantum-gravity-motivated scheme for the breakdown of Lorentz symmetry. An unappealing aspect of these cosmic-ray-puzzle solutions is that they require the existence of a preferred class of inertial observers. Here I propose a new kinematical solution of the cosmic-ray puzzle, which does not require the existence of a preferred class of inertial observers. My proposal is a new example of a type of relativistic theories, the so-called "doubly-special-relativity" theories, which have already been studied extensively over the last two years. The core ingredient of the proposal is a deformation of Lorentz transformations in which also the Planck scale Ep (in addition to the speed-of-light scale c) is described as an invariant. Just like the introduction of the invariant c requires a deformation of the Galileian transformations into the Lorentz transformations, the introduction of the invariant Ep requires a deformation of the Lorentz transformations, but there is no special class of inertial observers. The Pierre Auger Observatory and the GLAST space telescope should play a key role in future developments of these investigations. I also emphasize that the doubly-special-relativity theory here proposed, besides providing a solution for the cosmic-ray puzzle, is also the first doubly-special-relativity theory with a natural description of macroscopic bodies, and may find applications in the context of a recently-proposed dark-energy scenario.

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